On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 at 4:17pm, Rainer Wiener wrote > argv[0] = "amrestore" > argv[1] = "-h" > argv[2] = "-p" > argv[3] = "/dev/nst0" > argv[4] = "ha-node01.berlin.skilldeal.com" > argv[5] = "^hda2$" > argv[6] = "20030317" > amrestore: 0: skipping start of tape: date 20030317 label > SkillDealBackupFull01 > amrestore: 1: skipping > ha-node02.berlin.skilldeal.com.nb1.20030317.0 > amrestore: 2: skipping > ha-node01.berlin.skilldeal.com.nb1.20030317.0 > amrestore: 3: skipping ha-node01.berlin.skilldeal.com.nb0.20030317.0 > amrestore: 4: skipping ha-node02.berlin.skilldeal.com.nb0.20030317.0 > amrestore: 5: skipping amanda.`erlin.siilldeal.com.hda1.20030317.0 > amrestore: 6: skipping ha-node02.berlin.skilldeal.com.hda1.20030317.0 > amrestore: 7: skipping ha-node01.berlin.skilldeal.com.hda1.20030317.0 > amrestore: strange amanda header: "AMANDA: DILE 00030317 > ha-node01.berlin.skilleal.com hda6 lev 0 comp .gz program /bin/tar" > amidxtaped: amrestore terminated normally with status: 0 > Rewinding tape: done > amidxtaped: pid 31832 finish time Tue Mar 18 14:52:30 2003
So this looks like there was no backup of hda2 from ha-node01 on that tape. Should there have been? > argv[0] = "amrestore" > argv[1] = "-h" > argv[2] = "-p" > argv[3] = "/dev/nst0" > argv[4] = "ha-node01.berlin.skilldeal.com" > argv[5] = "^hda1$" > argv[6] = "20030317" > amrestore: 0: skipping start of tape: date 20030317 label > SkillDealBackupFull01 > amrestore: 1: skipping ha-node02.berlin.skilldeal.com.nb1.20030317.0 > amrestore: 2: skipping ha-node01.berlin.skilldeal.com.nb1.20030317.0 > amrestore: 3: skipping ha-node01.berlin.skilldeal.com.nb0.20030317.0 > amrestore: 4: skipping ha-node02.berlin.skilldeal.com.nb0.20030317.0 > amrestore: 5: skipping amanda.`erlin.siilldeal.com.hda1.20030317.0 > amrestore: 6: skipping ha-node02.berlin.skilldeal.com.hda1.20030317.0 > amrestore: 7: restoring ha-node01.berlin.skilldeal.com.hda1.20030317.0 > incomplete distance tree > > gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated > Error 32 (Broken pipe) offset 131072+32768, wrote 0 > amrestore: pipe reader has quit in middle of file. > amrestore: skipping ahead to start of next file, please wait... > amidxtaped: amrestore terminated normally with status: 2 > Rewinding tape: done > amidxtaped: pid 31876 finish time Tue Mar 18 15:12:39 2003 And that looks like either a corrupted file on tape, a bad gzip, or hardware problems. What Linux distro are you running, and what version of tar is there? If there's a 2.2.17 kernel laying around, it's gotta' be old... -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University